Regent Theatre

Grey River Argus, 12 March 1938, Page 6

Regent Theatre

“VOGUES OF 1938." Next year’s fashions in fun, gowns, girls, love, music, dances and technicolour are introduced by “Walter Wanger’s Vogues of 1938," the gay musical extravaganza starring Warner Baxter and_Joan Bennett, which begins a three days’ engagement at the Regent Theatre to-day! Helen Vinson, Misca Auer, Alan Mowbray, and Jerome Cowan head the imposing supporting cast, which including Marjorie Gateson, Dorothy McNulty, Alma Kruger, Polly Rowles, and the famous Walter Wanger Models, beauteous winners of the producer’s nationwide search for “the most photographed girls in the world.”' The story, an original screenplay from the typewriters of Samuel and Bella Spewack, the team who wrote the sensational stage success “Boy Meets Girl,” casts Baxter as a he-man couturier, head

of the fashionable “House of Curson,’ while Joan Bennett plays a beautiful New York debutante who jilts a multimillionaire on her wedding day to become a mannequin. Helen Vinson contributes complications as Baxter’s extravagant stage-struck wife; Cowan is seen as her angel-hunting manager; Mowbray plays the jilted millionaire who tries to put Baxter out of business by backing Mischa Auer, playing an impecunious Russian prince, in a rival fashion house. The production introduces several new song hits, including “That Old Feeling” by Lew Brown and Sammy Fain; “Lovely One” by Frank Loesser and Manning Sherwin; and “Red Hot Heat” and “Fall Fashion Forecast” by Louis Alter and Paul F. Webster. “Walter Wanger’s Vogues ‘of 1938” was directed by Irving Cummings. The settings are by Alexander Toluboff, Seymour Felix staged the production numbeys, and Ray Rennahan was in charge of photography. The production is released through United Artists.-